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We'll soon refer the whole Amount To your Commission of Account. Thus having tortur'd our Invention To frame a Draught of our Intention,

By the Advice of H ton,

Wise Ely, Fenwick, and Tom D ,

And of all Ranks some Fifty One, Who have adjusted for our coming All Gimcracks fit for such a Mumming. And 'tis their business to persuade you We come to Succour not Invade you.

" But after this we think it nonsence (Beside it is against our Conscience) To trouble you with a Relation Of Tyranny and Violation, Or Burthens that oppress the Nation, Since you can make the best Construction Of what may turn to your Destruction.

" But since Our Enemies wou'd fright you Telling our Debt to France is mighty, As positively we assure you, As if We were before a Jury, That He expects no Compensation For helping in Our Restoration, But what He gains in Reputation : And all must own that know His Story How far His Interest stoops to Glory : Whose Generosity is such, We doubt not He'll out-do the Dutch. We only add that We are come By Trumpets sound, and beat of Drum, For Our just Titles Vindication, And Liberties Corroboration. So may We ever find Success, As We intend you nothing less Than what you owe to old Queen BESS. "London: Printed in the Year 1693."

No. 37. of the Collection of Proclamations, SfC. presented to the Chetham Library, Manchester, by James 0. Halliwell, Esq., F.K.S.

BlBLIOTHECAE. CHETHAM.

LORD GEORGE GORDON'S RIOTS.

" When I was a lad," says Rogers (Table Talk, p. 181.), " I recollect seeing a whole cartful of young girls, in dresses of various colours, on their way to be executed at Tyburn. They had been condemned, on one indictment, for having been concerned in (that is, perhaps, for having been spectators of) the burning of some houses during Lord George Gordon's riots. It was quite horrible."

This reminiscence is indeed so " horrible," that we may hope that it is either greatly exaggerated, or that Rogers' s recollections of his boyish days were not very distinct. About seventy rioters, it is said, were found guilty, but the number executed did not reach one-third of that amount; Lord Stanhope tells us (History of England, vol. vii. p. 60.) that, " after full examination of the cases, and numerous respites, there were twenty-one persons left to undergo the extreme sentence of the law."

In the Gentleman's Magazine for 1780, only two women are named as having been executed, viz., Mary Roberts and Charlotte Gardiner (a

black), who had been " active in pulling down the house of a publican."

As the persons executed, we are told, were "the most active of the rioters," surely young girls could not be included amongst them. Indeed, Rogers himself intimates that they might have been spectators only of the fires that prevailed. May he not have been altogether mistaken in supposing them to be criminals ? Were not these girls attracted, to what always has been, and ever will be an attraction, to the mass of the people a public execution ? And were not their gay dresses considered by them most suitable to what is, alas ! too generally regarded as a holiday exhi- bition ? J. H. MARKLAND.

NOTES ON JUNIDS.

Herewith I send you the titles of a few works published on the subject of Junius ; none of which, I think, appeared in the list in your last number* (2 nd S. i. 185.).

Works on the Subject of Junius.

" The Political Contest being a Continuation of ' Ja- nius's Letters,' from the 6th of July to the Present Time. 8vo. London. 1769."

" An Address to Junius upon the Subject of his Letter to the 'Public Advertiser,' Dec. 19, 1769. 8vo. London. 1770." [This work, attributed to Wilkes, was published at 6s.]

" An Impartial Answer to the Doctrine delivered in a Letter which appeared in the 'Public Advertiser,' under the Signature of Junius. By Charles Fearne. 8vo. London. 1770." [Published at Is.]

" Letters Addressed to the King, the Duke of Grafton, the Earls of Chesterfield and Sandwich, Lord Barrington, Junius, and the Rev. Mr. Home, under the Signature of P. P. S. London. 1771. 8vo."

" An Answer to Junius, showing his imaginary Ideas and false Principles, his wrong Positions and random Conclusions. 8vo. London. 1771." [Published at 6s.]

" The Trial of John Almon, Bookseller, for selling Junius's Letter to the K g. London. 1771. 8vo." [Published at Is.]

" An Epistle to Junius. By Benjamin Hughes. 4to. London. 1774 and 1777 ( ?)."

" A Serious Letter to the Public on the late Transac- tion between Lord North and the Duke of Gordon. By Junius. London. 1778. 8vo." [This is fictitious.]

" Letters to Junius. By Sir William Draper. 1812. In Defence of the Earl of Granby and General Gansell." .

" An Inquiry into the Author of the Letters of Junius. To which are added some further Extracts from curious MS. Memoirs. London. 1814."

"The Claims of Sir Philip Francis refuted: with a Supplement to Junius discovered. 1823. 8vo."

" An Attempt to Ascertain the Author of Junius. 8vo. London. 1817."

[* The List given by W. W. J., it must be remem- bered, did not pretend to be a List of all works published on the subject of Junius ; but simply a Bibliographical account of books published with the special object of proving who Junius was. We have omitted our corre- spondent's List of Editions, as they have already been recorded in "N. & Q." ED. "N. & Q."]